Frontiers - Nature

Life isn’t static. It's a dynamic phenomenon of almost constant movement and change even at the smallest level, where complex protein molecules fold into different three-dimensional shapes and bind with each other in myriad ways.

Physics Assistant Professor Alison Sweeney finds light at the bottom of the ocean

College junior Kaiwen Zhu investigates the intricacies of schizophrenia.

Blake Cole

Patients with schizophrenia often display both social and cognitive deficits, along with hypersensitivity to otherwise non-harmful stimuli. Pinpointing the exact causes of these symptoms, however, is another matter entirely. But Kaiwen Zhu, C’14, has made it her mission to better understand the intricacies of the disease.

What makes light? Where does it come from? These are among the first
questions most children ask about the world around them, and countless
scientists have dedicated their careers to finding the answers.